Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 14:43:10 -0700 From: Thomas Pfenning <thomaspf@microsoft.com> To: "'freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org'" <freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org>, "'richard@pegasus.com'" <richard@pegasus.com> Subject: RE: DAT or removable device? [Symbios 53C875 controller] Message-ID: <c=US%a=_%p=msft%l=RED-81-MSG-960829214310Z-30487@tide21.microsoft.com>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
I have a Tyan Yorktown which is a 825 with on board bios and it works great with FreeBSD. Tekram has a 875 board and does have a driver for FreeBSD on their website. Sorry I do not have any experience with it. I recall that Stefan Esser was going to work on generic support for the 875. Cheers Thomas >---------- >From: richard@pegasus.com[SMTP:richard@pegasus.com] >Sent: Thursday, August 29, 1996 3:30 AM >To: 'freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org' >Subject: RE: DAT or removable device? [Symbios 53C875 controller] > >} >} That is an interesting measuring method. The August issue of Byte >} published a comparison of Ultra SCSI adapters and they had the AHA-2940 >} Ultra wide and a Symbios 53C875 based board on the test. They tested it >} with 8 drives and at least the 53C875 matches or beats the Adaptec in >} all tests. The Adaptec actually came in last in accumulated bandwidth. >} These tests where performed under Novell Netware, however, the >} accumulated > 36MB/s with 8 disks on a single UltraSCSI card seem to >} indicate that this is pretty close to the saturation of the SCSI bus. >} >} Of course, the Adaptec came in first with the highest price:-) >} > >Cool. Where can this board be found, and how well does it work with >FreeBSD? > > >Thanks > >Richard >
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?c=US%a=_%p=msft%l=RED-81-MSG-960829214310Z-30487>